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Some parts of this page won't work property. Please reload or try later. X Beta I'm Watching This! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Error Private detective Philip Marlowe solves many crimes in Los Angeles during the 1930s. Stars: King Leopardi was a big celebrity and an even bigger ladykiller, but when he winds up dead in a singer's boudoir all the evidence points to her. Marlowe is hired to find the real killers before his ... 8.1 Philip Marlow, a one time cop and with an unfortunate habit of being too honest and too broke for his own good, takes the job of protecting a former mob accountant on the run. When two hit men arrive... 7.7 Marlowe is subpoenaed to testify before a grand jury investigating the mob murder of a district attorney he was hired to bodyguard. Throw in a femme fatale and Marlowe has his hands full trying to ...

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See full summary » Stars: Tadanobu Asano, Rina Ohta, Gô Ayano Legendary private eye Philip Marlowe takes on new cases. Director: Rob Bowman After being hired to find an ex-con's former girlfriend, Philip Marlowe is drawn into a deeply complex web of mystery and deceit. Director: Edward Dmytryk Poodle Springs (TV Movie 1998) Crime | Drama An aging Phillip Marlowe gets mixed up with blackmail & murder among elite social set in 1963. Director: Bob Rafelson Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love. Director: Howard Hawks A young woman from Kansas hires LA private detective Philip Marlowe to find her missing brother. Director: Paul Bogart A private detective is hired to retrieve a valuable antique coin that was stolen from its owner by her son, who used it to pay off a blackmailer. The private eye soon finds himself up to ... See full summary » Director: Herbert I.

Leeds The Falcon and reporter Ann Riordan try to solve a string of murders after an ex-wrestler, released from jail, goes looking for his girl friend. Director: Irving Reis Detective Philip Marlowe encounters a variety of characters while checking on why Leslie Murdock stole a rare doubloon from his mother. Director: John Brahm Set in England, rather than California, the story follows Raymond Chandler's book fairly closely otherwise. Philip Marlowe is asked by the elderly (and near death) General Sternwood to ... See full summary » Director: Michael Winner Edit Storyline Relying on his wits, instinct, gun and whiskey private detective Philip Marlowe solves many of Los Angeles' worst crime cases during the 1930s. His style is sarcastic, his methods are unorthodox, his charm is adored by the ladies, his meddling is hated by the local cops, his wallet is often times empty and his skull is hardened by the many unexpected blows received in the dark. Despite his low social status, his constant drinking and the lowly company he keeps Philip Marlowe has very high moral standards and a very developed sense of justice.

Often times he lends a helping hand to those in need who are at the bottom of society and also to tear-eyed attractive ladies in distress who can gift him a kiss and a drink. The crime mystery series are adapted from Raymond Chandler's short stories. Written by nufs68 He's the reason crime doesn't pay. Genres: 27 April 1986 (USA) See more » Also Known As: Did You Know? Quotes Philip Marlowe : Hollywood's the kind of town where they stick a knife in your back and then have you arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. John Dalmas, PI, in fact 15 April 2010 | by blacknorth (Ireland) – See all my reviews This rather curious series is a hybrid in more ways than one. A US-UK co-production, with the UK input coming from LWT, as far as I remember, it looks like a period Dempsey & Makepiece. It seems to have been shot on video stock which has degraded over the years or been damaged in storage. But, thankfully, that doesn't affect the viewing experience very much. Chandler's stories feature a number of different Private Detectives, of whom Marlowe is the most famous.

But many of the original stories, from which these episodes are adapted, actually featured John Dalmas as the shamus, rather than Marlowe. As a reader of Chandler I was always mystified as to why Marlowe eclipsed Dalmas - the latter character seemed witter, surer, with more tragedy about him and less of the throwaway line. What we have in this series is many of the Dalmas stories given over to Marlowe. And, to be frank, it doesn't feel right Marlowe doesn't have the intellectual equipment of Dalmas, and I think the scriptwriters recognised this and took some severe liberties with the plotting when making their adaptations. One compromise leads to another... Having said all that, the series is very enjoyable as it stands. Powers Boothe is good as Marlowe, more of the laconic thick-ear than the closet fist. The supporting actors are all fine and there are some very effective action set-pieces scattered throughout. Recommended. I feel sorry for Dalmas, though I know he'd shrug it off. 2 of 2 people found this review helpful. Was this review helpful to you?

Yes Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe were 'named after and inspired by black private eye' | Daily Mail Online Share this article Share Miss Ransil, who has worked on a book and film script about Samuel Marlowe, was transcribing files and letters following his death in 1991 at the age of 100 - but these have since gone missing. The bizarre twist has left Miss Ransil desperate to find the letters, with the search focused at the moment on a warehouse in southern Los Angeles where they are thought to have been left. Classic movie: Actor Humphrey Bogart played private eye Sam Spade (left and right, with actress Mary Astor) in John Huston's 1941 film The Maltese Falcon, based on Dashiell Hammett's 1929 novel of the same name Neither Mr Hammett nor Mr Chandler have ever revealed the origins of their characters’ names.

Hammett calling his detective Sam Spade, a rude but common word for a black person at the time, was a joke between them Louise Ransil, historian But it has been claimed in the past that Philip Marlowe’s name came from Marlowe House at Dulwich College in south London, where Mr Chandler was educated. Samuel Marlowe, a veteran of the First World War, carried out six private investigations in the 1920s which were seen as too dirty or dangerous for white detectives. At the time Mr Hammett and Mr Chandler were writing short stories for pulp fiction magazine Black Mask - and Samuel Marlowe wrote to them to correct procedural details in these. He then became friends with Mr Chandler - who hired him as a guide and bodyguard to research areas which were seen as 'off-limits' to white middle-class authors, according to Miss Ransil. Authors: A historian believes Jamaican Samuel Marlowe was the inspiration for the characters created by writers Dashiell Hammett (left) and Raymond Chandler (right) Speaking to The Sunday Times reporter John Harlow , Miss Ransil claimed that Mr Hammett and Samuel Marlowe got on well together.

She said: ‘They were friends who loved laughing together. Hammett calling his detective Sam Spade, a rude but common word for a black person at the time, was a joke between them.’ But Miss Ransil remains annoyed that the papers have been lost - after Samuel Marlowe's house was cleared out by a crew hired by a real estate agent in 2006 following his death 15 years earlier. Speaking to journalist Daniel Miller for the Los Angeles Times earlier this month, she said: 'It's a long and twisted tale that didn't turn out the way I’d hoped. I'm kicking myself in a lot of ways.' Read more: Philip Marlowe Philip Marlowe Created by Raymon d Chandler (1888-1959) "I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. I put them on and left the room." -- from Farewell, My Lovely What more can I say about PHILIP MARLOWE?

Three Gun Mack may have been the first, Race Williams may have introduced the PI to the world and The Continental Op and Sam Spade may have staked out the ambiguous moral code that would fuel the genre for years, but it was Raymond Chandler's Marlowe that would define for all time who, what, where and why a private eye is. Traces of Marlowe run from Paul Pine to Jim Rockford to Ms. Tree to Lew Archer to Spenser. It's all here: the loneliness and infinite sadness to the quick, sarcastic cynical jibes that mask a battered and bruised romantic, the love/hate relationship with the cops, the corruption that exists in all levels of society. It's all here. Philip Marlowe, for better or worse, is the archetypical private eye. By the time he wrote his famous essay, The Simple Art of Murder, even Chandler realized it. Philip Marlowe was born in Santa Rosa, California, in "that time out of time that allowed him to be 33 in 1933, 42 in 1953, and 43 1/2 in 1958", according to Bill Henkin.

He runs a single man operation out of the Cahuenga Building in Los Angeles. Tall, and big enough to take care of himself, he likes liquor, women, reading, chess and working alone, and is educated enough that he boasts he can speak English "if he's required to." He used to work for the district attorney, but was fired for insubordination, thus starting a cliche that still hasn't run out of steam. How many ex-cops are there out there that seem to have become private eyes? Chandler first worked out the character of Marlowe in several short stories in Black Mask, featuring a variety of private eyes under different names. Among these pre-heroes were John Dalmas , Carmady , Ted Carmady and Mallory . Marlowe has been adapted for film, television, radio, comics and audiotapes by all kinds of writers, sometimes quite successfully, particularly in film and radio, and sometimes rather disappointingly (television). As the centennial of his birth approached, there was renewed interest in Chandler and a demand for new product, so Marlowe started to appear in new novels and short stories written by other writers, again with mixed results.

In 1987, Hiber Conteris wrote an original Marlowe novel, Ten Percent of Life, where Marlowe returns to hunt the killer of Chandler's literary agent. Unique, to say the least. The following year, Knopf published Raymond Chandler's Philip Marlowe-A Centennial Celebration, a collection of Marlowe short stories by most of the top names in detective fiction. Stories ranged from merely good to astounding, as various contemporary writers brought their own strengths to bear on ol' Phil. The glaring exemption from the list of author's was Robert B. Parker , at the time the most successful of all private detective fiction writers, whose Spenser was at times so closely modelled on Marlowe as to be a parody. The reason was soon forthcoming. Parker had been at work completing Chandler's final Marlowe novel, Poodle Springs, wherein Marlowe and Linda get married (Chandler had often mentioned how difficult he had found it to write about Marlowe in a relationship). Given Spenser's relationship with Susan, the choice of Parker seemed not only right, but natural. The response to the book was decidedly mixed. Purists and other writer's in the genre screamed.

Parker's own success with Spenser (including a truly mediocre, pretentious television show), and his perceived smugness probably contributed to the negative reaction. There was a lot of talk about audacity, and "how dare he?" Still, someone must have liked it. It was soon announced that Parker would write a second Marlowe novel, an all-original novel that acted as a sequel to The Big Sleep. When Perchance to Dream appearred in 1991, the grunts of protest rose to howls of anguish from certain quarters. It's interesting to note all of this was directed at Parker and none at two dozen or so other writers in A Centennial Celebration who had attempted exactly the same thing Parker had, albeit in short story form. THE EVIDENCE "I see (Marlowe) always in a lonely street, in lonely rooms, puzzled but never quite defeated." -- from a letter from Chandler to Maurice Guinness, dated February 21, 1959 "I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like 'em myself. They're pretty bad. I grieve over them long winter evenings." "I'm a romantic, Bernie.

I hear voices crying in the night and I go to see what's the matter. You don't make a dime that way. . . No percentage in it at all." -- Marlowe gives the game away, to a cop buddy "Leave us to do the thinking sweetheart. It takes equipment." -- Marlowe in The Little Sister To say goodbye is to die a little. Marlowe in The Long Goodbye UNDER OATH "Few pleasures in life are as seductive as reading Chandler. When I open one of his books for a quick fact-check, I might not surface until ten chapters later... When the great Bruce Taylor ran San Francisco Mystery Books, he always kept a stack of The Long Goodbye next to a sign, 'This is the best book in the store.' Maybe not, but damn close." The Black-Eyed Blonde (2014)... Buy this book ... Buy the audio ... Kindle it! SHORT STORIES Most of Chandler's short stories featured earlier prototypes for Marlowe, who went by such monickers as Mallory , Ted Carmady , or John Dalmas , when they had any name at all.

When they were later collected in volumes and reprinted, the names were mostly changed to Marlowe, however. So, here's what are generally available as Marlowe short stories these days, although only the last, "Marlowe Takes on the Syndicate" (AKA"Wrong Pidgeon" or "The Pencil"), was actually written as a Marlowe story..

"Blackmailers Don't Shoot" (December 1933, Black Mask; Mallory ) "Smart-Aleck Kill" (July 1934, Black Mask; Mallory ) "Finger Man" (October 1934, Black Mask; Carmady ) "Killer in the Rain" (January 1935, Black Mask; Carmady ) "Nevada Gas" (June 1935, Black Mask) "Spanish Blood" (November 1935, Black Mask) "Guns at Cyrano's" (January 1936, Black Mask; Ted Malvern ) "The Man Who Liked Dogs" (March 1936, Black Mask; Carmady ) "Noon Street Nemesis" (May 30, 1936, Detective Fiction Weekly; aka "Pick-up on Noon Stree") "Goldfish" (June 1936, Black Mask) "The Curtain" (September 1936, Black Mask; Carmady ) "Try the Girl" (January 1937, Black Mask; Carmady ) "Mandarin's Jade" (November 193

7, Dime Detective Magazine; John Dalmas ) "Red Wind" (January 1938, Dime Detective Magazine: John Dalmas ) "The King in Yellow" (March 1938, Dime Detective Magazine) "Bay City Blues" (June 1938; Dime Detective Magazine; John Dalmas ) "The Lady in the Lake" (January 1939, Dime Detective Magazine; John Dalmas ) "Pearls Are a Nuisance" (April 1939, Dime Detective Magazine) "Trouble Is My Business" (August 1939, Dime Detective Magazine; John Dalmas ) "I'll Be Waiting" (October 14, 1939, Saturday Evening Post) "The Bronze Door" (November 1939) "No Crime in the Mountains" (September 1941, Detective Story, John Evans ) "Marlowe Takes on the Syndicate" (April 6-10, 1959, London Daily Mail; as "Philip Marlowe's Last Case" in January 1962, EQMM; as "The Pencil" in September

 1965, Argosy; as "Wrong Pidgeon" in February 1969, Manhunt) COLLECTIONS & OMNIBUS EDITIONS Trouble is My Business (1972)...

Buy this book Pickup on Noon Street (1972) Collected Stories (2002; 1344 pages - all of his short fiction)... Buy this book The Big Sleep/Farewell, My Lovely/The High Window... Buy this book Omnibus edition with introduction by Diane Johnson. The Lady in the Lake/The Little Sister/The Long Goodbye/Playback.. Buy this book Omnibus edition with introduction by Tom Hiney. AND FOR THOSE WHO REALLY, REALLY, REALLY LOVE CHANDLER...

You can't go wrong with this beautiful collection from The Folio Society , who proudly provclaim that "In a world of declining publishing standards, where most books are cheaply printed, and bound using low-grade materials, (we) resolutely set store by traditional values of excellence; for our designers and production personnel the term 'quite good' means 'no good': only the best is good enough." Certainly, this handsome boxed set, comprising all seven Marlowe novels, long out of print and priced accordingly (I've seen people asking as much as $38,000 for it), is a vivid example of that maxim: these are utterly gorgeous, featuring specially commissioned artwork and an introduction by Chandler biographer ﻿Frank MacShane. Sure, you could probably buy the individual volumes, but then you wouldn't be able to see the spines all lined up: The Complete Novels Philip Marlowe: Product of a Hard-Boiled Time : NPR May 5, 20086:00 AM ET Mike Shuster Hard-boiled is the phrase most often used to describe Raymond Chandler's quintessential private eye, Philip Marlowe.

The truth is: It isn't Marlowe who is hard-boiled, it's the world he lives in. For "In Character," our series exploring famous American fictional characters, NPR's Mike Shuster examines the PI who was created in the 1930s and has gone through several incarnations in radio, film and television. STEVE INSKEEP, host: We're going to talk next about a private detective who was completely a product of his time, but whose story has endured into our time. The detective is Philip Marlowe. He's the creation of the novelist Raymond Chandler. And in the minds of many readers, he might still be wandering the streets of Depression-era Los Angeles, solving crimes and letting off wise cracks like this: I needed a drink. I needed a lot of life insurance. I needed a vacation. What I had was a coat, a hat and a gun. Philip Marlowe made it through tough times. And after 9/11, a modern novelist wrote that we needed to be inspired by that same character again. So now we've performed our own investigation. NPR's Mike Shuster has the latest installment In Character, our series exploring famous American fictional characters.

MIKE SHUSTER: Raymond Chandler begun to develop the Marlowe character in short stories and novellas he published in pulp fiction magazines like Black Mask and Dime Detective. Marlow emerged as a fully realized character in novel form with the publication of "The Big Sleep" in 1939. Marlowe was cool, smart, world weary, even droll. He dressed in dark gray suits, lived in lonely rooms, worked in empty offices. He seemed a perfect fit for Humphrey Bogart, who starred in the 1946 film version of "The Big Sleep" with Lauren Bacall. (Soundbite of movie, "The Big Sleep") Ms. LAUREN BACALL: (As Vivian Sternwood Rutledge) You know, I don't see what there is to be cagey about, Mr. Marlowe. And I don't like your manners. Mr. HUMPHREY BOGART: (As Philip Marlowe) Well, I'm not crazy about yours. I didn't ask to see you. I don't mind if you don't like my manners. I don't like them myself. They are pretty bad. I grieve over them on long winter evenings.

I don't mind your ritzing here, drinking your lunch out of a bottle. But don't waste your time trying to cross-examine me. (Soundbite of banging) Ms. BACALL: People don't talk to me like that. Mr. BOGART: Oh. SHUSTER: The world Marlowe lived in was mean, filled with dangerous men and fickle women. Marlowe was tough, sure, but not cold. Otto Penzler, editor of "The Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps," places Marlowe in the tradition of the American Western transposed to the modern urban landscape. Mr. OTTO PENZLER (Editor, Black Lizard Big Book of Pulps): Chandler saw him and wrote about it famously as a knight, a man of purity, a man of honor, a man of integrity. That was not necessarily true for most of the private eyes who would do whatever it took to get the job done. SHUSTER: Chandler wrote his Marlowe stories almost always in the first person. So Marlowe was the narrator as well as the main character, and he took on something of the literary flavor of Chandler's fine writing.

Van Heflin played him in this 1947 radio version of the novella, "Red Wind." (Soundbite of radio show, "Red Wind") Mr. VAN HEFLIN: (As Philip Marlowe) There was a rough desert wind blowing into Los Angeles that evening. It was one of those hot, dry Santa Anas that come down through the mountain passes and curl your hair, make your nerves jump and your skin itch. On nights like that, every booze party ends up in a fight, and meek little housewives feel the edge of a carving knife and study their husbands' necks. Anything can happen when the Santa Ana blows in from the desert. SHUSTER: The character was so vivid for some, Marlowe seemed true to life. But Chandler himself challenged that in a 1958 radio interview for the BBC with Ian Fleming. (Soundbite of audio) Mr. RAYMOND CHANDLER (Author): He doesn't exist in real life. Mr. IAN FLEMING (Author): No, he doesn't. Mr. CHANDLER: Unless you can make him seem real. Mr. FLEMING: Yes. Marlowe seems real to me.

I mean, I visualize him quite clearly. Mr. CHANDLER: Oh, I know, but that's because I've known him so long. Mr. FLEMING: Yeah. Mr. CHANDLER: He's not real as a specimen, as a private detective. Mr. FLEMING: Yeah. SHUSTER: Fleming and Chandler discussed Marlowe's emotions, which Fleming observed are far more nuanced and complex than his own creation, James Bond. (Soundbite of audio) Mr. FLEMING: On the other hand, Philip Marlowe feels them and speaks about them. He make them (unintelligible). Mr. CHANDLER: He's always confused. Mr. FLEMING: He is, is he? (Soundbite of laughter) Mr. CHANDLER: He's like me. SHUSTER: Marlowe makes his way alone and isolated through a highly chaotic world. That's the way Robert Crais sees him. Crais is a writer of contemporary crime fiction. He has written the highly successful novels featuring private eye Elvis Cole. Mr.

ROBERT CRAIS (Author): Though Marlowe might feign it from time to time, I never believed Philip Marlowe was a cold, detached man. He was always personally involved on some level. He always felt the pain of the characters he was dealing with. (Soundbite of movie, "The Big Sleep") Mr. BOGART: (as Philip Marlowe) You alone, Joe? Mr. LOUIS JEAN HEYDT (As Joe Brody): Yeah, except for this. Mr. BOGART: Except - my, my, my. Such a lot of guns around town and so few brains. You know, you're the second guy I've met today that seems to think a gat in the hand means the world by the tail. (Soundbite of laughter) Mr. BOGART: Put it down, Joe. Mr. PENZLER: Marlow was tough enough to be regarded as hard-boiled. SHUSTER: Again, Otto Penzler. Mr. PENZLER: But I don't think he wanted to be. He would rather have used his brains in a more sensitive way than a lot of other private eyes would've done.

SHUSTER: Dick Powell was the first to play Marlowe in a 1944 version of "Farewell, My Lovely." The title was changed to "Murder, My Sweet." The character comes through, even though the tough-guy language is a bit quaint today. (Soundbite of movie, "Murder, My Sweet") Mr. DICK POWELL: (as Philip Marlowe) I've been out peeking under old Sunday sections for a barber named Dominick, whose wife wanted him back, and I never found him. I just found out all over again how big this city is. My feet hurt, and my mind felt like a plumber's handkerchief. The office bottle hadn't sparked me up, so I'd taken out my little black book and decided to go grouse hunting. Nothing like soft shoulders to improve my morale. SHUSTER: Later, many actors played Marlowe, including James Garner, Elliott Gould, James Caan and even Danny Glover, and Robert Mitchum in a remake of "The Big Sleep" in 1978. (Soundbite of movie, "The Big Sleep") Mr.

ROBERT MITCHUM: (as Philip Marlowe) It was close to 11:00 when I got back to my apartment. I'd concealed a murder and suppressed evidence for 24 hours, but I was still at large and nobody seemed unduly worried. As I got to the door, I heard my television was on. I wasn't in, so I guess somebody else must be. SHUSTER: Screenwriters have always felt free to adapt Chandler's work to different times and places. There was no television when Chandler wrote "The Big Sleep," and this version took place in London, not Chandler's favorite city, L.A. A lot of people think Mitchum was the perfect Marlowe. Among his fans is Robert Crais, who first encountered Marlowe when he was 15 and found "The Little Sister" in a second-hand bookshop. Mr. CRAIS: I read it that night, literally in one sitting. And it threw open the doors and kicked out the walls for detective fiction, for private eyes, for Los Angeles. I mean, all the great loves of my life stem from that book.

SHUSTER: Crais's characters, Elvis Cole and his buddy Joe Pike, both take something from Marlowe, but they are their own men. Crais - who has another Elvis Cole novel, "Chasing Darkness," coming out this summer - strives for what Chandler achieved: a character that keeps connecting with readers for years and years. Mr. CRAIS: Marlowe was resonant with the public and is resonant even today and to all of us who followed in Chandler's footsteps. At his base, Marlowe is us. There's nothing superheroic about him. He's a regular guy who has somehow found a way to divine order out of the chaos of our lives. SHUSTER: Marlowe lives on. Last year, a pilot was made for a TV series, and there's talk of another movie with Clive Owen playing the private eye. Mike Shuster, NPR News. (Soundbite of music) INSKEEP: Just found this quote from the novelist Daniel Handler after 9/11, saying he was inspired by Raymond Chandler's example, by Philip Marlowe's example, that real trouble cannot be erased, only endured. And that is more soothing to me than any cheerful grin.

It's MORNING EDITION from NPR News. I'm Steve Inskeep. Copyright © 2008 NPR. All rights reserved. Visit our website terms of use and permissions pages at for further information. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by Verb8tm, Inc. , an NPR contractor, and produced using a proprietary transcription process developed with NPR. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Accuracy and availability may vary. The authoritative record of NPR’s programming is the audio record. Philip Marlowe - 必应 Sign in Philip Marlowe Philip Marlowe is a fictional character created by Raymond Chandler. Marlowe first appeared under that name in The Big Sleep, published in 1939. Chandler's early short stories, published in pulp magazines like Black Mask and Dime Detective, featured similar characters with names like "Carmady" and "John Dalmas". Some of those short stories were later combined and expanded into novels featuring Marlowe, a process Chandler called "cannibalizing". When the non-cannibalized stories were republished years later in the short story coll ...

(展开) ection The Simple Art of Murder, Chandler changed the names of the protagonists to Philip Marlowe. His first two stories, "Blackmailers Don't Shoot" and "Smart-Aleck Kill" (with a detective named Mallory), were never altered in print but did join the others as Marlowe cases for the television series Philip Marlowe, Private Eye. Marlowe's character is foremost within the genre of hardboiled crime fiction that originated in the 1920s, notably in Black Mask magazine, in which Dashiell Hammett's The Continental Op and Sam Spade first appeared. Underneath the wisecracking, hard-drinking, tough private eye, Marlowe is quietly contemplative and philosophical and enjoys chess and poetry. While he is not afraid to risk physical harm, he does not dish out violence merely to settle scores. Morally upright, he is not fooled by the genre's usual femmes fatales, such as Carmen Sternwood in The Big Sleep. Chandler's treatment of the detective novel exhibits an effort to develop the form.

His first full–length book, The Big Sleep, was published when Chandler was 51; his last, Playback when he was 70. Seven novels were produced in the last two decades of his life, with an eighth (Poodle Springs) being posthumously completed by Robert B. Parker and published years later. Philip Marlowe is a fictional character created by Raymond Chandler. Marlowe first appeared under that name in The Big Sleep, published in 1939. Philip Marlowe 主要作品 编辑 Philip Marlowe 折叠电影作品 上映时间 剧名 扮演角色 导演 主演 担任职务 1977 女孩大派对 Body Builder's Friend (as Phil Morini) Jim Clark ...

baike.baidu.com/item/Philip Marlowe 免费下载Philip Marlowe – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio以前发布的“Philip Marlowe – The Great Detectives of Old Time Radio”单集，或免费订阅其将来的单集。 Philip Marlowe, Private Eye is an American mystery series that aired on HBO in the United States from April 16, 1983 through June 3, 1986, and on ITV in the United ... Philip Marlowe Created by Raymon d Chandler (1888-1959) "I needed a drink, I needed a lot of life insurance, I needed a vacation, I needed a home in the country. Beyond Bogart: 7 (Other) Faces of Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe - Signature Reads Beyond Bogart: 7 (Other) Faces of Raymond Chandler’s Philip Marlowe Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall in ‘The Big Sleep’/Image © Warner Bros. SHARE Let’s just get this out of the way now.

Philip Marlowe is the quintessential hardboiled detective of American noir, and Humphrey Bogart, who played the hard-drinking and quick-witted gumshoe in “The Big Sleep,” is the quintessential Philip Marlowe. But beyond Bogart, the character of Marlowe continues on, collecting many interpretations and portrayals along the way. Created by crime fiction writer Raymond Chandler , Philip Marlowe is a product of the pulp magazines of the 1930s. Chandler, who became a professional writer late in his life, developed his style by penning short stories for publications like Black Mask and Detective Fiction Weekly. The more and more he wrote stories for the pulps, the more and more a singular character evolved from the work: a tough private investigator with a stoic demeanor, a sharp tongue, a taste for liquor, and deep inner moral compass to keep him from losing his cool or falling for femme fatales. It wasn’t until Chandler wrote his first novel, The Big Sleep , in 1939, that he gave the character the name Philip Marlowe.

Early stories used a variety of different names that ranged from Mallory to John Dalmas, though they would later be reworked with “Marlowe” added to them for publication in two short story collections. Chandler wrote seven Philip Marlowe novels (eight, if you want to count Poodle Springs, which was unfinished when he died in 1959 and was completed by mystery writer Robert B. Parker thirty years later). All but one eventually were adapted for film or TV and around a dozen different actors have played Marlowe. In honor of the 125th anniversary of Chandler’s birth, July 23, we decided to take a look at some of the more notable non-Bogart screen versions of the famous private eye. Dick Powell, “Murder, My Sweet” (1944) Two years before Bogart holstered a gun and donned a fedora as Marlowe, Dick Powell made cinema history by becoming the first actor to ever play the role.

Sure, Hollywood had adapted two of Chandler’s Marlowe books by then, but both films -- “The Falcon Takes Over” and “Time to Kill” -- just borrowed the mysteries from Farewell, My Lovely and The High Window and dropped them into two already established film series to be solved by their own detectives. Powell had started out in films as a song and dance man known for playing the male leads in romantic comedies, but it was his portrayal of Marlowe in this adaptation of Farewell, My Lovely that transitioned his career to successful film noir. Powell’s comedic sensibilities work well with Marlowe’s one-liners (though his facial expressions border on slapstick mugging for the camera occasionally) and he does a fine job of cynicism. In 1954, Powell returned to the Marlowe role -- making him one of only two actors to ever do so -- in the premiere episode of the CBS mystery anthology series “Climax!” Unfortunately any recordings of the live episode have disappeared, but the show has become somewhat notorious because of a production gaffe: an actor, while playing a dead body, got up and walked offstage within sight of the camera … and all the viewers at home.

James Garner, “Marlowe” (1969) The thing that most people love about James Garner is the same thing that others hate about him: his innate James Garner comedy style that seems to show its face in nearly every role. Since his breakout in “Maverick,” Garner has essentially played the same type of smarmy character, using humor against the backdrop of traditional genre (for example, putting his finger in the end of gun to keep from getting shot in “Support Your Local Sheriff”). So when MGM wanted to revive the character of Philip Marlowe, who hadn’t been in a movie for over twenty years, Garner seemed like an odd choice. The movie, simply titled “Marlowe,” was adapted from the Chandler novel The Little Sister , set in the then-present-day of late 1960s Los Angeles. Garner’s interpretation plays heavy on the character’s cynical wit, but, as Variety pointed out at the time , he’s unable to smoothly switch between the comedic and hardboiled elements.

Today, the film is more notable for being the first to expose American audiences to kung-fu legend Bruce Lee, in the role of a henchman who uses karate moves to bust up Marlowe’s office in an attempt to intimidate him. Elliott Gould, “The Long Goodbye” (1973) When director Robert Altman’s modern version of Chandler’s The Long Goodbye hit theaters, it wasn’t well received by critics or moviegoers -- but in the forty years since, “The Long Goodbye” has become somewhat of a classic and is often cited as a great example of the neo-noir style. Though the movie changes the ending, director Robert Altman nails the source material’s mood. But the gem of the film is Elliott Gould in arguably his best performance, as a scattered yet shrewd chain-smoking Marlowe, one who Roger Ebert cited as an intentional anachronism in the early 1970s setting, a deliberate counter to the “cool, competent professional” from the books (and brought perfectly to the screen by Bogart). It’s an interesting twist on the character, and somehow it works.

Robert Mitchum, “Farewell, My Lovely” (1975) and “The Big Sleep” (1978) Robert Mitchum made a name for himself playing antiheroes and villains throughout Hollywood’s noir era. But his version of Philip Marlowe brought a new element to the established character: old age. In the book, and for most movie adaptations, Marlowe is in his mid-thirties; Mitchum was pushing sixty when he took on the role for the 1975 version of "Fairwell, My Lovely" (if you’ve lost count, that’s the third adaptation of the novel). The film embraces Mitchum’s age and even opens with a voice-over narration that laments growing older. Mitchum’s Marlowe has a worn-out quality to him that matches the pre-war Los Angeles setting. "Fairwell" benefits from its time of filming -- after the stringent film standards of the '40s and '50s (when Chandler was writing the books) -- so the grittiness of the novels is included and amped up.

The minor character Amthor, for example, is a drug-dealing psychic in the book (in “Murder, My Sweet” he was changed to a black-mailing psychiatrist), and for this adaption the character was changed to the madam of a high-end brothel. Mitchum was so well received as Marlowe that he played the role again a few years later in a remake of “The Big Sleep” with Joan Collins and an elderly Jimmy Stewart. Powers Boothe, “Philip Marlowe, Private Eye” (1983-1986) There were two attempts to create a Philip Marlowe TV show. The first was a half-hour drama series that lasted only one season on ABC in the 1950s (it starred Philip Carey, an actor who is more known for his groundbreaking guest role as a gay man in an episode of “All in the Family” than anything else). The other was a series of one-hour mysteries produced for ITV in the UK that aired on HBO in the States in the mid-1980s, starring Powers Boothe.

Boothe seemed perfect for the role of Marlowe, with his broad shoulders and a deep voice suited for Chandler’s dry quips. The idea for the series also seemed solid, focusing on the Marlowe short stories to give an overall day-to-day impression of the detective’s regular caseload. Unfortunately, the series ultimately feels more like a parody of the Marlowe stories than an actual adaptation. Boothe’s narration feels overwritten and his version of Marlowe fires his gun more times in the opening credits than in all novels combined. In the end, the series has all of the Marlowe’s toughness and electricity, but none of his heart and introspection. Danny Glover, “Fallen Angels - Red Wind" (1995) Danny Glover once played Philip Marlowe. Yes, Danny Glover from “Lethal Weapon” and “Predator 2.” Danny “I’m too old for this shit” Glover. Glover is the only African American actor to date to have played Marlowe. Glover nailed it, as the portrayal, which was for an episode of the short-lived Showtime anthology series “Fallen Angels,” earned him an Emmy nomination .

The story was based on one of Chandler’s earlier pulp shorts that he’d reworked as a Marlowe tale for book publication. Unfortunately, it’s nearly impossible to see the episode today. There is no (legal) online version available and the show was never put out on DVD (at least in the U.S.). Some Google-fu pulls up VHS copies of the series for sale at a few online retailers, but the price can run over $150 a pop. James Caan, “Poodle Springs” (1998) It’s hard to believe, but it’s been fifteen years since anyone played Philip Marlowe on any screen. It’s even more startling to hear that veteran actor James Caan, best known for his role as Sonny in “The Godfather,” was the last actor to pick up a gun, take a slug of whiskey, and mouth off to a goon as the famed Marlowe. Caan played the detective in an HBO movie adaptation of Poodle Springs, the Chandler book finished by Robert Parker.

The film, Caan included, does a great job of capturing Marlowe not only trying to reconcile his independent nature with married life, but also of dealing with the clash of his wife’s wealth against his need to keep working. But Marlowe is Marlowe and he can’t hang up his hat that easily. For the most part critics found Caan’s rendering of Marlowe, who’s now living in an upper-class desert community in the film. Though the movie held its own against the more notable versions, critics found the plot convoluted and confusing . What say you, gumshoes? Did we miss any clues in tracking down the most important (besides Bogart, of course) Philip Marlowes on the big and small screens? Let us know below. It's time for Jon Hamm to embrace the role of Marlowe. Eileen H Dick Powell's "Murder My Sweet" is one of my favourite films. Dick Powell was good and he was surrounded by a terrific supporting cast. s tomson Anyone who's read Chandler knows Marlowe. His introspeciton, sadness, humor, philosopy etc. Marlow likes poetry, plays chess (alone). Very lone-wolf character.

Dick Powell's "Murder my Sweet" was a good movie, but a superficial, glib sketch of Marlowe. I mentioned Jon Hamm. I also heard that Clive Owen has been considered but nothing seems to be happening with this. Both Hamm and Owen might be good choices. Particiulalty Owen, if properly directed by someone that actually reads Chandler. Rick O The Brasher Dubloon, an adaptation of The High Window, made into a solid B movie with George Montgomery, 1947. Not bad. rick

Question: Who created the private detective Philip Marlowe?
Answer: Raymond Chandler